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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She was way too young to be living with this guy. Her parents should have insisted she go to college instead of the van life. [/quote]

She was 22. But this can happen in college as well, like with the University of Utah student killed by her ex boyfriend. Same apathetic police, family far away as well trying their best to figure out how to help and support a young adult child without overstepping. Of course abusers take advantage of young women not near family and isolate them further.[/quote]

THIS! What we need to do as a society is stop communicating to women that their main focus should be their role as partner to a man. There's later comments in this thread - "why wasn't she dating an ambitious boy in college?" does not solve the problem.

How about we teach women that whomever they date (if they want to) should NOT be their main focus and that they should leave anyone (ambitious, odd, underemployed, whatever the case may be) who is not treating them properly?

A huge part of the problem in these situations (and I am in no way blaming Gabby for what happened to her, she might have even been trying to leave at that point from the sounds of it) is that women are taught (by society as a whole, if not their individual families) to prioritize finding a man and making things work. And men can use that to manipulate them, to the quoted point. It won't make certain men any less violent (that's on them) but if we stopped with the fairy tale Prince Charming narratives and encouraging women to date/marry/be in a committed relationship while they are young, they might be a little more willing to walk away, or say "no thank you" in the first place.

I understand most people want a partner, and I do believe in marriage as an institution, but a lot of people out there aren't worth marrying/staying with/being engaged to, even if they aren't violent. Normalizing women being single and leaving bad partners, and staying alone until they find a good one, or permanently, if they want to (or never do find a good one) will go a long way to help future generations of women. [/quote]

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